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Next Meeting May 9, 2014 7:00 PM Myanmar Global Discovery First Christian Church 2000 N Lincoln Ave. Loveland, CO Fort Collins, Estes Park, Greeley, Loveland, Windsor, and Surrounding Areas Inside this Issue May Meeting & Kiel Exchange 2 April Meeting 3 April Meeting Photos 4 Benson Park Garden 5 Mtn. States Field Rep. Report Mountain States Clubs 6 Exchange Calendar Officers & Chairs 7 St. Louis (outbound) and Brazil (inbound) Exchange Opportunities 8 It’s a Match! Or not. We were notified April 22nd that Napier, New Zealand accepted the invitation to visit us in August 2015. The disappointing news is that due to illness and death in the Causeway, UK (Ireland) club, they won’t be able to host either of their proposed exchanges this year. BUT Kristin Harrison, the new FFI Exchange Planning Coordinator, has proposed Peru as another possible exchange. We had requested Peru in November as one of our choices, and on April 28th, we were notified that Peru is willing to host us! Please consider applying to lead any of these new exchanges. Marcia Ross and Cindy Paulson have everything lined up for the Kiel exchange that leaves May 21st. Alice Gibson is leading the St. Louis exchange September 21st to October 1st, and Debby Jones is awaiting further confirma- tion from Brazil. Our nominating committee (Larry Slocum, Gary Cummins, and Cinda Clark) has come up with a roster of board candidates for the June election. Thank you to the committee for completing this important task. The candidates are: President—Gary Cummins, Vice President—Anita Koplyay, Secretary— Paulette Weaver, and Treasurer—Duane Sharp. We are fortunate that our founding members set up term limits for our board members, giving us the opportunity to introduce new officers with new ideas and assuring the revitalization of the club. If you would like to look at the Bylaws, please let me know. Please consider this your official notice of the election of officers at the June 13th meeting. Thank you to those faithful members who helped with the season’s opening of work on our garden in Benson Park, in Loveland. Remember that June 7 th is the big “All Volunteer Day” at the park, when we will plant new sets and spread mulch. If you have a few spare minutes another day, feel free to drop by and pull a few weeds. From our President Sue Cummins—Editor & Publisher May 2014 Marilyn Garner
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Next Meeting
May 9, 2014
7:00 PM
Myanmar Global Discovery
First Christian
Church
2000 N Lincoln Ave.
Loveland, CO
Fort Collins, Estes Park, Greeley, Loveland, Windsor, and Surrounding Areas
Inside this
Issue
May Meeting & Kiel Exchange
2
April Meeting 3
April Meeting Photos
4
Benson Park Garden
5
Mtn. States Field Rep. Report Mountain States Clubs
6
Exchange Calendar Officers & Chairs
7
St. Louis (outbound) and Brazil (inbound)
Exchange Opportunities
8
It’s a Match!
Or not.
We were notified April 22nd that Napier, New Zealand accepted the invitation to visit us in August 2015. The disappointing news is that due to illness and death in the Causeway, UK (Ireland) club, they won’t be able to host either of their proposed exchanges this year. BUT Kristin Harrison, the new FFI Exchange Planning Coordinator, has proposed Peru as another possible exchange. We had requested Peru in November as one of our choices, and on April 28th, we were notified that Peru is willing to host us!
Please consider applying to lead any of these new exchanges.
Marcia Ross and Cindy Paulson have everything lined up for the Kiel exchange that leaves May 21st. Alice Gibson is leading the St. Louis exchange September 21st to October 1st, and Debby Jones is awaiting further confirma-tion from Brazil.
Our nominating committee (Larry Slocum, Gary Cummins, and Cinda Clark) has come up with a roster of board candidates for the June election. Thank you to the committee for completing this important task. The candidates are: President—Gary Cummins, Vice President—Anita Koplyay, Secretary—Paulette Weaver, and Treasurer—Duane Sharp. We are fortunate that our founding members set up term limits for our board members, giving us the opportunity to introduce new officers with new ideas and assuring the revitalization of the club. If you would like to look at the Bylaws, please let me know. Please consider this your official notice of the election of officers at the June 13th meeting.
Thank you to those faithful members who helped with the season’s opening of work on our garden in Benson Park, in Loveland. Remember that June 7th is the big “All Volunteer Day” at the park, when we will plant new sets and spread mulch. If you have a few spare minutes another day, feel free to drop by and pull a few weeds.
From our President
Sue Cummins—Editor & Publisher
May
2014
Marilyn Garner
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MAY 9TH MEETING—MYANMAR
Min ga la ba an auspicious greeting any time of the day in Myanmar.
Dot Cada and Patti Stickler invite you to experi-ence some of the joys of their Global Discovery Trip with Trusted Partners February 9th through March 5th. The welcome they received in four locations exceeded expectations. New friends told them sto-ries of being imprisoned for as long as three years, and of how that affected them and their fami-lies. Their visitors were most impressed by the will-ingness of these women to host a garden supper that took six of them all day to prepare in their out-side kitchen. There’s much more to see and hear about this trip, so join us on May 9th.
Our traveling group of 18 eagerly awaits this
upcoming adventure. Eleven of us come from
Northern Colorado, four are from other states
(Washington, Nevada, New Jersey and Virgin-
ia), and three are from Australia. We’re glad
to hear from the Kiel ED that spring is arriv-
ing there, and the weather is warming up!
We’ll be holding a final group planning meet-
ing on May 6 at 9:30 a.m. at Cindy’s house.
Exchange to Kiel, Germany & Extension Cruise/Tour
May 21-June 8, 2014
Marcia Ross
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Our guest speaker at the April meeting was Wahid Awad, a CSU PhD student in plant breeding and genetics. He is the Director of Graduate Student Affairs and the Vice President of the Graduate Stu-dent Council . Awad is from Cairo, Egypt. He attended Cairo University for two years, and he was a teaching assistant there. He had a scholarship from the Netherlands for a master’s degree, and he also attended the University of Florida.
In 2011, Wahid returned to Egypt and had the honor of being part of the Egyptian Revolution. During this time, he worked on higher education research for eight months, got into politics, went to protest meetings, and did some teach-ing. He thought things were going well after the revolution, and he applied to schools in the United States, one of which was CSU. He had heard that CSU had many international students, and he liked the idea of the mountains and thought it was a good school at which to study plant genetics. He wanted to be an ambassador for his country and to share presentations to schools about Egyptian culture and politics. He wanted to serve as a cultural bridge.
The last King of Egypt was King Farouk I, the country’s 10th ruler. Its most recent leaders were Mu-
hammad Naguib (1953-1959), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1959-1970), Anwar al-Sadat (1970 until he was assas-
sinated in 1981), Muhammad Hosni Mubarak (1981 until he was ousted in 2011). He wanted his son to
inherit his power without an election. Resistance to this inheritance of power led to emergency law,
police brutality, fraud and corruption in elections, restrictions on free speech and press, economics
challenges, lack of employment, and corruption among government officials. Protests were planned
through Facebook for two weeks before the revolution. At first there were only a few thousand protest-
ers, but after police attacked them, millions joined in the protests at Al Tahrir Square, aiming to put
the regime down. After 18 days of protests, Mubarak stepped back from power. As a result of the over-
throw, Mubarak’s government agreed to leave and give the power to the Supreme Council of the
Armed Forces, led by Field Marshal Tantawi, and the Council suspended the constitution. When an
election was held, Muhammad Morsi became the first elected president after the revolution. Unrest
again became the norm when the Muslim brotherhood took over, in April of 2013. There were more
protests of the requirement that those who serve in the government must be Muslim, and there was an
coup called a Day of Action on July 3, 2013. Morsi left under pressure, appointing Chief Justice Adle
Mansour as Interim President, and on August 14, 2013, pro-Morsi sit-ins were dispersed by the army
and the police. In four hours, 1,000 Egyptian citizens were killed in the streets of Egypt. A figurehead
president is now in place, while most think the Minister of Defense, who is in the running to be elected
president in yet another election, has the real power.
The new government has not turned out to be as good as originally hoped by the revolutionists, in-
cluding Wahid. Wahid plans to go back home to Egypt and perhaps be an associate professor at Cairo
University or open his own seed company. But Egypt is not the best place for him to be right now, so
as long as it is dangerous for him to return, he will seek employment here in the United States.
APRIL MEETING—WAHID AWAD ON EGYPT
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APRIL MEETING
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March came roaring in, and we have had some nice April rain and snow showers, so we are expecting good garden days ahead! Our garden plants are showing signs of life, and the weeds, including the ever-difficult bindweed, are ready to be attacked. We are going to try the all-new Bindweed Killer Recipe that doesn't impact surrounding plants!! Now that's reason enough to grab your gloves, tools, and garden bucket and join the crew at the east entry of Benson Park to help bring our Friendship Force Garden to glory!
Please mark your calendars for the following dates this spring:
May 10: Weeding Session
June 7: All-Volunteer Day; Spread Mulch and Plant New Sets
BENSON PARK—FRIENDSHIP FORCE GARDEN
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali
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REMEMBER OUR SISTER MOUNTAIN STATES CLUBS When you have a “hankerin’” to visit other countries and cultures, remember you have many op-tions through Friendship Force. First, be aware of exchanges through our local club. Secondly, check on exchanges through our sister Mountain States Regional Clubs. Then, thirdly, check on ex-change offerings through FFI. In each case you would file an application to join the exchange as an Ambassador. Many options!
To learn what other clubs in our region have planned, check out their monthly newsletters for the latest. Visit our website, ffncolo.com, click on Regional and then select a newsletter of interest from the Regional Newsletters box, or investigate a website from the Regional Websites box.
If you have an interest in a particular article or a detail from one of the above newsletters, please print or make notes. There will be no archives of past issues; only the most current issue will be available on our website.
Current selections include newsletters from the Denver, the Pikes Peak (Colorado Springs), and the Western Colorado (Grand Junction) clubs. As others become available, they will be added.
Ed Brigden
MOUNTAIN STATES FIELD REP NEWS
Barbara Guilford
FF Cheyenne
Mountain States Region
6 Clubs
423 Members
The April 27, 2014, Field Rep conference call began with Conference reports from Bob Duncan (Southwest Region), Gordon Carscadden (West Coast Region) and Barbara Macken (Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region). Successful events included presidents’ meetings before conferences, outstand-ing speakers, Theme Exchange discussions, Legacy Fund Auctions, and visits by FFI executives.
Pallie reported that “It’s A Match” information was sent out. Clubs were reminded to submit to Atlanta their proposed and confirmed exchanges.
The 2014 World Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, has 197 folks signed up and excited. EAR-LY BIRD DEADLINE is APRIL 30.
Joy Di Benendetto reported that an outside consultant has been hired to analyze the Strategic Plan Survey that is now being translated. The online survey will pinpoint each member’s individual club activities as well as the goals and mission of Friendship Force International. Some members may be contacted by telephone when internet access is not available. The goal is to complete the survey by July, publish it in September, and present it at the World Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, in October. Joy also reported on the Next Generation Council and the May 5th Global Meeting.
Pallie Savoie will be leaving FFI for Lexington, Kentucky, where her husband will be working. They are expecting a second child. Kathy Thomas will now work with Field Representatives.
I am looking forward to seeing many of you in Salt Lake City. Isn’t it great to have this huge ex-tended family showing us how to make a difference?
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PRESIDENT: Marilyn Garner 493-4137 [email protected] VICE PRES: Gary Cummins 682-2266 [email protected] SECRETARY: Paulette Weaver 356-5068 [email protected] TREASURER: Alice Gibson 310-8848 [email protected]
Programs: Esther Johnsen 484-2666 [email protected] Exchange Coordinator: Kay Thomas 278-9054 [email protected] Website: Ed Brigden 381-5809 [email protected] Newsletter Editors/Publishers: Ed Brigden, Cindy Paulson, Sue Cummins 381-5809 [email protected] 225-2252 [email protected] 682-2266 [email protected] Publicity: Anne Brown 663-3727 [email protected] Member Directory: Ed Brigden 381-5809 [email protected] Membership: Thelma Slocum & Cindy Paulson 223-9855 [email protected] 225-2252 [email protected] Telephone Tree: Barbara Turnbull 493-0787 [email protected] Music: Rosemary Donovan, Larry Clark 669-8818 [email protected] 669-5426 [email protected] Store: Debby Jones 686-0303 [email protected] Historian: Ken Weaver 356-5068 [email protected] Greeting Table: Willie Westdorp 667-6525 Nita Koplyay 613-2066 Hospitality: Rosemary Donovan 669-8818 Donna Clark 484-8009 Cheryl Stevens 663-4588
Tablecloth Mgr: Kay Sheahan 667-4473 [email protected] Large Drink Containers: Cindy Paulson Ways & Means: Dick Johnsen & Doris Rogers 484-2666 [email protected] 203-9045 [email protected] Photographers: Cathie McCallum, Ed Brigden, & Cindy Paulson Reporters: Donna Clark, Cindy Kenna, Barbara Miller, Thelma Slocum, Marion Sparks
2014 OFFICERS & COMMITTEE CHAIRS
May 2014
EXCHANGE CALENDAR
Inbound Outbound
20
1
4
Curitiba, Brazil; late August to Sept.
Inbound
Debby Jones 686-0303
Kiel, Germany May 21—June 9
& Cruise/Tour Marcia Ross 377-0512
Cindy Paulson 225-2252
FFI International Conference
Auckland, NZ October 14—16 Early-bird Deadline April 30
Registration available online with FFI
St. Louis, Missouri Sept. 21—Oct. 1
Outbound
Alice Gibson 310-8848
2
0
1
5 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Fall
Inbound
ED Needed
Mtn. States Reg. Conference May 2-4 Salt Lake City
FFI International Conference
Vancouver, BC, Canada TBA
Peru November?
Outbound
ED Needed
Napier, New Zealand August
Inbound
ED Needed
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Yes, fellow club members, the exchange appears to be still on. After limited exchange of communica-tions, with dates ranging from August through October, it looks as though we are on for late August to early September. The Curitiba club was to meet on April 15th to finalize dates, travel needs, and number of ambassadors. There could be about 20 ambassadors coming this way to enjoy our Colora-do hospitality. As soon as I hear the particulars, I will contact those of you who signed up to be on the committee, and I hope to schedule a planning meeting in early May.
Debby Jones, Exchange Director
CURITIBA, BRAZIL INBOUND
EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU
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We'll be taking a road trip to the beautiful state of Missouri, leaving on the 21st of September for Kansas City, Saint Louis (home stay), and Branson. We’ll return to our area on October 1st.
There is a lot of interest in this exchange so if you want to join us, please submit your appli-cation and a $200 deposit as soon as possible. Give me a call if you have any questions, com-ments, or if you know of interesting attractions around Kansas City or Branson.
Alice Gibson, Exchange Director
970-310-8848
Send your application to me at 1012 Akin Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80521
Kansas City, St. Louis, and Branson, Missouri
